$60 sounds about right for Hasbro...  Not for anyone else mind you, just Hasbro.    Things move just fine at $40 or $50+ in other toy lines, it's just Star Wars that seems to have been snake-bitten for whatever reason.

The Shuttle's cool but it's mostly air when you think about it...  Big flat wings and a small hull.  Not a lot to it, so I'm never pleased much by Hasbro prices on vehicles...  Unless this is packed with something special I'm pissed off that I want, then I'll happily pass on it myself.  I dread what pack-ins it has though...  The Sand Crawler's droid repaint really pissed me off at the time, and I wound up lucking out on it by finding someone who only wanted the vehicle to get me the droid...  Not so sure I cna pull that off with a shuttle though.   

I'm a big proponent to softgoods features on action figures in this scale.  While I don't think they're ALWAYS the best option, I do think they should be used any time they are helping a figure's poseability.  So Jedi robes, any "cape", etc., skirt pieces, and the like...  These are good.

The trenchcoat that came with Han is amazing to me, and I think it's proof of how softgoods just make the toy better...  Does it look "real"?  No, but a plastic coat's going to hinder articulation, even the best flexible plastic would've unfortunately.  And Han's coat looks GOOD...  not great, not perfect, but good, and for a toy that's what it should strive for I think over looking perfect.

Sculpt/likeness has its set of rules, but when a character's outfit impedes a toy's playability I feel that the sculpt accuracy needs to take a back seat to the toy's quality as just that, a toy.  So the cloth coat is all good to me.

For my money, I like Greedo's vest a lot...  Fabric texture is important in how the cloth comes off aesthetically on the toy I think, so for me I prefer a thin fabric used on coats/cloaks like a Jedi robe, but with a coarse texturing to the fabric...  It matches up well with the costume's looks in the film.  The thinness of the fabric helps it lay flat on the figure, fold with the figure...  It helps the aesthetics, and the weave of the material gives a nice look of a heavier material.

If you want to see the single best softgoods robe for a Jedi, look at the old Lollipop Mace WIndu (Total Control Mace Windu) From Saga 2002-2003.  THAT figure has great fabric for its robe.  If they sewed full Jedi robes with that, they'd be able to sell them in bulk, I guarantee it.

When I do my reviews here at JediDefender.com though, I pick those little details apart...  Is the Jedi robe of the quality of an Evolutions Anakin's robes, or is it a VOTC Obi-Wan's robe?  That's important...  Neither is perfect, but one's clearly better than the other.

On Greedo VTSC, I liked his cloth vest.  I thought it was going to be attrocious, but when I opened the figure it gives a feel of a bulky and "hide" vest...  Like it's an animal skin.  It's kind of neat really.  And Greedo's vest in the film has a fuzz look to it sort of...  It's plain and flat, it's brownish-orange...  I thnk Hasbro nailed it.  And with the vest being one singel piece cut and only sewn at the sides, it's really not bulked up by excess fabric at the seams...  It's pretty spiffy I think.  To me Hasbro has a winner on that one.

It even covers the holster if you want, or you can have Greedo push it back over the gun for a cool gunslinging look.  To me it's far superior to fabric for those reasons, but does it look better than Commtech Greedo's vest?  It's a better color but the sculpted vest is more contoured and stuff to the figure...  For my money though, the cloth vest makes the better toy...  I'll take the cloth vest then over CTGreedo's plastic vest.

My CT Greedos have all been pushed into my Jabba's Thugs army now, and VTSC Greedo reigns supreme over all the others, hands down.

I'm at 18, mostly bought overseas simply out of a desire to keep my sanity.

I've seen two at retail...  I've got a couple more coming and hope to pick up some more from out of the country here next month to get me to my minimum.  At that point I'll pick up if I can afford them and find them readily.

In my area VTSC hasn't even shown up at WM yet that I'm aware so I'm hoping a big deluge of them comes at some point.  I'd love to walk in and see peg upon peg of VTSC...  Especially for $9.99.  TRU's only gotten a case here and there, nothing major...  Target is our only steady keeper of these it seems.  WM's so out of the game it's not even funny.

I'm pretty pleased with these vehicle choices...  I'll pick them mostly all up as well...  The Hailfire's scale isn't exact but it's pretty close actually.  The AAT's the same way but it's much closer actually.  The Jedi Fighter looks fantastic in black though, I can't wait to see the final one...  I like the way the Droid vehicles look battle worn too and as if they've been on the front lines for years.

I wish Hasbro would've put a better foot forward and given us NEW $20 pricepoint vehicles though...  Like in particular I'd have liked to see the Corp. Alliance Droid Tank from the Kashyyyk Landings...    Pack-in a poseable battledroid to ride it and it's a smash hit I think.  I'm surprised we didn't see more of the $15 line though myself...  BARCS, RT's, and Wookiee Copters sold really well this past year.

I think though, Hasbro's seeing that $20 or less = sales...  $30 = some sales, but some stagnation on the shelves...  $40+ = exclusives turf, and risky.

I'm really wishing I'd gotten the two TRU exclusive JSF's for Obi and Ani now.   I passed at the time, and now I want them both desperately.

I saw some of the S2 Hot Toyz figs at the toy show out here last time it was around...  Good luck on those.  They're worth it.  YOu can usually get a case for under $100 on Ebay too though.  They're worth picking up man, trust me.

Yeah there's actually an electronic SW Battleship out from Tiger Electronic (I think) or something...  I know this because I have it.  It's not in a fold-up case like that, it's a full buildable board, but all it is, basically, is electronic battleship with SW sounds and ships...

The cool thing at the time (I got my set on clearance) was that you could order more ships and pieces and there was a game that featured calling in back-up and new ships...  It's really interesting.

The game has a single-player feature to play the computer too.  I lose every time to it, and think it's sort of BS but it's still fun.  I've played the kids at the regular game though and it's pretty great.

Meh...  I'm not surprised by any of the tirade's randomness.

I actually agree to an extent though that the GameCube's superior to the PS2...  it is in my eyes anyway.  I've appreciated it more than the PS2 I play with the kids.